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, The Physician London 'S Daughters : Ja...
opening of the story , Ms wife and Mrs . Murray renew an early friendshiDr . and Mrs . Murray being residents in the parish .
Mrs . Grey p , speedily Becomes interested : in Emily and Anna , whom she finds well-educated irlsdecidedly above the average of their
age * and sex . She discovers g , thai : they are pining for a wider herefinding their home life insufficient and unsatisfactory . She
im sp media , tely appoints herself the task of bringing them under a new class of influencesand of leading them to -find happiness and
contentment in domestic , and social dutiesthe latterof courseof a limited nature . The surrounding circumstances , are hi , ghly favour , -
able for such an undertaking . Dr . and Mrs . Murray are model arentstheir only fault towards their children being their not
having p , known how to deal with the higher aspirations of their daughterstill the Greys came to their assistance : At this
important juncture , they find it necessary tp take a journey into Scotland , leaving their girls with Mrs . Grey , who thus has every opportunity
of impressing them with her own mode of viewing life ; and , being a woman of great energy , and of untiring devotion to the good of
those around her , they are inspired by her example to change their way of life , and , instead of retiring to their own room and pursuing
their own studies and amusements for many hours in the day , as was their wontthey write letters for Mr . Greyteach Mrs . Grey ' s-
scholars to sew , and _assist her in visiting the poor , of her husBand ' _s , parish .
The amount of occupation thus provided for them is astonishing to those who are acquainted with the ordinary routine of a country
and clergyman Bueklan ' s d life an . exceptional Evidently parish Mr . Grey . Mr is . Grey an exceptional is overwhelmed clergyman with _^ _,
correspondence and business of various kinds . Mrs . Grey is fagged and worn out with the fatigues of visiting the _cottagers
and superintending the schools . Under such circumstances the assistance of their young friends is of real value . More work
, howeveris found for them . On the return of their parents fronl Scotland , the little sister ' s governess goes awayand Anna takes
her place , ,. ( in other words , becomes a governess , without salary , ) and Emilwrites letters for her father and superintends the
arrangements y of his private room . Shortly afterwards the brothers—two unexceptionable boys—come home for the Christmas
holidays . The sisters devote themselves to tliem , helping them in their studiesreading poetry with themand drawing for them .
Before this , however , Mr . Grey ' s nephew , , Harry Butler , a _obtain in the , comes the sceneand eventually obtains the
hand of army Emil , y , , the story upon winding up , with their marriage , which takes lace in aBout a year from our introduction to the bride *
Having p seen her thus accomplish a woman ' s destiny , we leave her with a model husbandHoping that her year of probation may
prove of more use to her , than we can find it easy to believe . We
say farewell to Anna while she is yet in the first Hoom oi youth ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 2, 1863, page 422, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_02021863/page/62/
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